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Occupational Licensing and the Gender Wage Gap
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2020
We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant...
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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The Motherhood Penalty in China: Having A Child Increases Gender Inequality in the Labor Market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
Using a comprehensive individual panel dataset in China and an event study method, we examined the effects of having a child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings,...
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
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The Long-Term Effect of FIFA World Cup on Gender Gap in Education and Employment: Evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen, Cuong Viet; Tran, Anh Ngoc - 2021
The FIFA Soccer World Cups often happen within one month just before the national entrance exam to universities and colleges in Vietnam. Watching soccer matches can distract male students from their studies and reduce their probability to pass the exam. We find that Vietnamese men who had the...
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The #MeToo Movement and Judges' Gender Gap in Decisions
Cai, Xiqian; Chen, Shuai; Cheng, Zhengquan - 2024
Gender inequality and discrimination still persist, even though the gender gap in the labor market has been gradually decreasing. This study examines the effect of the #MeToo movement on judges' gender gap in their vital labor market outcome-judicial decisions on randomly assigned legal cases in...
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Short-Run Health Consequences of Retirement and Pension Benefits: Evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … the potential benefits of retirement programs resulting from social spillover effects. In addition, these programs may …
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The Mental Health Effects of Retirement
Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan C. - 2019
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …
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Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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Does retirement lead to life satisfaction? Causal evidence from fixed effect instrumental variable models
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis; Taylor, Catherine L.; … - 2020
This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently … community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the … first 3 years. We find that the improvements in financial satisfaction upon retirement are only observed for low …
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